Redesigning MPTCP for Edge Clouds

Conference Paper (2018)
Author(s)

Nitinder Mohan (University of Helsinki)

Tanya Shreedhar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi))

Aleksandr Zavodavoski

Otto Waltari

Jussi Kangasharju

Sanjit K. Kaul

Research Group
Networked Systems
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1145/3241539.3267738 Final published version
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Publication Year
2018
Language
English
Research Group
Networked Systems
Pages (from-to)
675–677
ISBN (print)
9781450359030
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Abstract

Edge clouds are an attractive platform to support latency-sensitive applications by providing computations on servers deployed close to end-users. These servers aim to employ MPTCP to leverage multiple connections including wireless over a public network. In this paper, we show that the default MPTCP design does not adequately support reliability in these environments, which makes it unfit for use in edge clouds. We propose RAMPTCP, an extension to MPTCP which focuses on adding reliability over network paths.